Author Description

This Story Explores The Ambivalent Relationship Between Children And Their Parents By Means Of A Fable Charged With Poetry, Compassion, And Shocking Comedy. When Barbara Glover Reached Puberty, Her Parents Suddenly Assumed Bodily Forms So Unnatural That They Had To Be Kept From The World And Tended Like Farm Animals. Uncertain Of Whether She Or They Caused The Accident, She Has Found Herself Bound In Dominance Over Them, Impelled By A Fierce Love To Organise Them And Her Younger Brother Around The Family's Affliction. Now This Equilibrium Is Doubly Threatened: The Mother Has A Fatal Disease Of Her Species, And The Brother Is Trying To Break Into A Life And Love Outside The Family.